Received May 20th, 2013; revised June 22nd, 2013; accepted July 1st, 2013

Keywords: PPD; PPD1; Stone Hair Dye; ICP; HPLC/MS and GC/MS

ABSTRACT

Many cases of toxicity and mortality either due to accidental or deliberate ingestion of hair dyes were reported in Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, India and Tunisia. In the field of forensic analytical toxicology, the identification and quantification of chemicals are essential in deaths related to intoxication. The aim of the present study is to conduct chemico-analytical characterization of para-phenylenediamine (PPD) based hair dye of (Black stone hair dye, SHD) currently used for dying hear in Egypt, to confirm the identification of its components, that may be potentially toxic on oral or dermal exposure, this study uses comparison between different analytical methods. The applied analytical methods were inductively coupled plasma/MS (ICP/MS), witch used to determine the metal components of the dye, high performance liquid chromatography/MS (HPLC/MS) and gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (GC/MS) were used for qualitative and quantitative analysis of PPD in the dye. A derivatization method was applied by transforming PPD (aromatic amines) into corresponding imine derivatives. This compound was prepared by condensation of 4-methylbenzeneamine with benzaldehyed to give N-benzylidene-4-methylbenzene-amine, which is a very stable internal standard. ICP/MS analysis revealed that most metal components of hair dye are Be, Na, Al, K, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Cu, and Zr, where HPLC/MS analysis revealed that PPD is the main ingredient of SHD. Derivatization is necessary for accurate determination of PPD in hair dye by GC/MS method and this results could not be obtained by direct injection of dye (without derivatization).

1. Introduction

Stone hair dye SHD is a commercial hair coloring. It contains PPD and other elements [1-3]. Many cases of toxicity and mortality either due to its accidental or deliberate ingestion were reported in Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, India and Tunisia [4]. On the other hand, para-phenylenediamine is a very common allergen in man. Contact dermatitis following exposure to chemical allergensis a common health problem [5]. It is an immunologic skin reaction that occurs in a genetically predisposed individual, the risk of sensitization rises with frequency of contacts with the allergen. Cases of photosensitization induced by para-phenylenediamine have also been recorded. Some attributed this to hypersensitivity of its para-group [6]. N-Substitution of PPD influences its sensitization potential. Also the length of the chain of the alkyl substituent often has an effect on the sensitization potential [7].

A number of analytical procedures have been developed to separate and determine PPD intermediate in coloring products, including ICP/MS, HPLC/MS and GCMS [8,9]. Some of these methods require laborious and time consuming methods of extractions of hair dye components, followed by their chemical derivatization [10]. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has been adopted as a popular method for the determination PPD derivatives, during which test chemicals are not heated above room temperature. Each PPD derivative has a characteristic ultraviolet absorption spectrum, and qualitative analysis is possible by selection of a suitable detection wavelength. Therefore HPLC is a suitable method for the determination of PPD derivatives [11]. HPLC/MS was chosen for the determination of PPD derivatives in the present study because of the stability of aromatic imines [12]. In the present work, PPD was converted into an imine; taking in account that coloring product compostion should not affect the reaction of PPD with aldehydes. On the application of GC/MS technique operating in SIM mode to determine the derivatives PPD obtained from commercially available hair dyes, many peaks were obtained in the chromatograms with the use of flame ionization detector. This could be due to the thermo labile nature of PPD. This explains the previous use of GC/MS for the qualitative analysis of its derivative [13].

The aim of the study is to define chemico-analytical characterization of PPD containing hair dye currently used in Egypt (SHD), identify the suitable methods of detection, and quantify its components that may be potentially toxic on oral or dermal exposure.

Two samples of SHD were weighted and dissolved in second water. The first was 0.1 mg/ml, and the second was 3.3 mg/ml. The used blank was second water. Tuning solution was used to adjust the instrument. Samples were injected directly to the instrument. Each sample repeated three times and the average was taken.

2.3.2. HPLC/MS

Preparation of Mobil phase:

Borate buffer: 19.06 gm of Sodium tetraborat was dissolved in 800 ml distilled water and completed to 1000 ml to reach to pH 8.0 using 0.1 N HCl.

- Preparation of the samples of PPD1, PPD2 & SHD for injection:

- 10 mg (10000 µL) of PPD and (SHD) were dissolved in 10 ml of (30% Methanol and 70% buffer).

- Samples were centrifuged at 7500 rcf for 5 min.

- 200 µL of the supernatant were filtered using nylon millex (0.45 µL).

- 100 µL from the last pure solution were diluted to 1000 µL using 900 µL (30% Methanol and 70% buffer, the concentration of this solution was 0.1 mg/ml (1/10).

- 500 µL from the last solution was diluted to 1000 µL using 500 µL (30% Methanol and 70% buffer. The concentration of this solution was 0.05 mg/ml (1/500).

- The apparatus was adjusted at the following parameters:

- flow rate 0.05 ml/min, 125 bar

- Solvent A is 70% Borate buffer at pH 8

- Solvent B is 30% Methanol

- Stop time is 9 min

- Wavelength 242 nm Three samples of PPD1, PPD2 and SHD were analyzed and each sample was repeated three times. The summation of all samples was 27 runs and the average of readings was taken.

3. GC-MS

3.1. Derivatization of Hair Dye SHD & PPD (Original Solution)

3.1.1. Preparation of the N1,N4-Dibenzylidenebenzene- 1,4-diamine (Derivatized SHD and PPD)

975.6 mg Benzaldehyde (9.20 mmol) was added to a magnetically stirred solutions of PPD and SHD (497.1 mg, 4.60 mmol) in THF (20 ml). The resulting mixture was treated with a catalytic amount of 4-methylbenzenesulfonic acid (23.74 mg, 0.138 mmol) and then Na2SO4 (236.13 mg, 18.4 mmol) was added as drying agent. After 5 h at 70˚C, the reaction mixture was filtered and the solvent was evaporated under vacuum, to give a yellow oil which was dissolved in CHCl3 (2 ml). Using CHCl3/MeOH (9:1, v/v) as eluent, and visualizing the spot of residual benzaldehyde with a 5% solution of 2, 4-dinitrophenylhydrazine in ethanol (99.5%), the product was recovered in 81% yield after precipitation from nhexane (15 ml). The purity of the final compound was checked by 1H NMR.

3.1.2. Preparation of the Samples for Injection

The original solution was diluted 100 times by taking 50 µl of it and adding 4.95 ml of THF, so the final concentration was 5 mg/ml. Second dilution was obtained by taking 50 µl from the first dilution and adding 4.95 ml of THF, so the final concentration is 0.05 mg/ml.

The GC/MS analyses were carried out in splitless mode (1 min purge off) using helium as carrier gas at a flow rate of 1 ml/min. The injection port temperature was 250˚C for derivatization PPD and PPD, the oven was maintained at an initial temperature of 60˚C for 2 min for PPD and derivatized PPD, and then programmed at 14˚C/min for PPD and derivatized PPD to a final temperature of 280˚C and stop time for PPD but for derivatized PPD, it was maintained for 20 min.

3.2. Injection of PPD without Derivatization

Four concentrations were prepared (10 µg, 30 µg, 50 µg and 100 µg) of PPD and SHD, they were injected in GCMS and each concentration was repeated three times, so the total was 18 runs.

4.3.1. Using Direct Injection of PPD and SHD without Derivatization by GC/MS

1) Qualitative analysis The retention time for PPD in SHD was 5.65 min, it was the same retention time in standard PPD, and the mass spectra at 108 Mwt for PPD in SHD was the same as the standard PPD, as shown in Figures 4, 5.

2) Quantitative analysis The concentration of PPD in SHD at concentrations 5 mg/ml and 500 mg/ml were 0.922 mg and 417.89 mg but for 0.05 mg/ml there is no signal for PPD and SHD.

5. Disscussion

Many studies reported the occurrence of hazardous health effects as a result of the use of “black hair” dyes or “black henna” either through its cosmetic use or through occupational exposure as in barbers. Mutagenic, carcinogenic, cataractogenic, hypersensitivity and hematopoietic disorders have been reported as consequences of hair dye use [14,15]. In the field of forensic analytical toxicology, the identification and quantization of chemicals are essential in deaths related to intoxication. In the present study, Stone hair dye was analyzed by different methods to identify its components and to verify the suitable method of their determination.

sive X-ray (E.D.X.) microanalysis revealed the following, Al 55.12%, Si 11.37%, S 1.47%, Fe 4.61%, Cu 16.61%, Zn 10.07%, Sb 0.73%, Pb 0.91%, K 0.52%, and Sc 0.3715. By comparing the previous results with ICP-MS results in present study, it was noticed that Aluminum (1.4 µg) represented the second highest component after Cr (1.464 µg) in SHD, but Cr, Na, Be, Ca, Ti, V, Zr and Mn components were not detected in E.D.X. analysis, on the other hand, the following components Si, S, Zn, Sb and Pb not detected in ICP/MS (Table 1). This may be attributed to the difference in the origin of the dye or due to the deference in devices sensitivity.

High performance liquid chromatography HPLC/MS has been adopted as a popular method for the determination of PPD. Each PPD derivative has a characteristic ultraviolet absorption spectrum, and qualitative analysis is possible by selection of a suitable detection wavelength [16]. The chromatograms of PPD1, PPD2 showed one characteristic peak at retention time between 4.49 min and 4.50 min, (Figures 4 and 5) where the chromatogram (Figure 6) showed the retention time of SHD is between 4.49 min and 4.50 min as the same retention time of standard PPD1, PPD2. This confirms that PPD is the main component of SHD and it could be used as an indicator of its presence in screening analysis of samples. The determination of PPD1, PPD2 and SHD were carried

out using total average area [17]. In the present results, it was found that 99.66% of SHD was PPD1 and 100.03% of it was PPD2, from previous results, the concentration of PPD in SHD by using the average aria of PPD1 and PPD2 was 99.85%, so we can say that the concentration of metals was 0.155%, this means that SHD mainly PPD. GC/MS was previously used in qualitative analysis of PPD [18]. By direct injecting SHD gave retention time at 5.65, which was the same retention time of standard PPD, this means that PPD is the mean component of SHD but the quantity couldn’t be determined by direct injection of sample (without derivatization). Certain analyses, specifically nitrogen containing compounds (i.e., aliphatic primary, secondary, and tertiary amines), can be difficult to detect using GC because there is significant adsorption of the basic amines on the often acidic column

as well as decomposition of the analyte [19]. Organic amines need to be derivatized before GC analyses [20]. So we modified a method (derivatization) that gives us a thermo stable compound, which gave us more accurate quantitative results. In the present experiment, a method for detecting PPD as one peak was modified using splitless mode, which gave characteristic one peak. The analytical technique GC/MS in SIM mode, was applied to determine the concentration levels of PPD in hair dyes, this requires complete derivatization of this intermediate to enhance the instrumental response [21]. In analogy to the hair dyeing process, a complete derivatization of PPD could be performed by a stable imine, because the content and composition of the coloring products should not affect the reaction with an aldehyde. Therefore, benzaldehyde was chosen as the best reactant to prepare imine derivatives from PPD, and the very good stability generally observed for aromatic imines [22], and very efficient protocol for the determination of PPD in commercial hair dyes. In the present experiment, the splitless mode was used for PPD as a sensitive and accurate analytical method for the determination of PPD in commercial hair dyes. The results, showed good linearity for the recovery of PPD and high levels of sensitivity, this recommend the use of the proposed method for the quantification of PPD in all commercially available hair dyeing products.

6. Conclusion

ICP analysis provides an accurate method for determination of metal components of hair dye, where HPLC analysis revealed that PPD is the main ingredient of SHD. Derivatization is necessary for accurate determination of PPD in hair dye by GC/MS method and this results could not be obtained by direct injection of dye (without derivatization).